List of Famous people born on January 1st

Dee Robson is a former costume designer for the BBC. Mrs. Robson was born in Liverpool, studied art at the Southport School of Fine Arts, Lancashire, and design for the theatre at the Wimbledon College of Art. She is now based in London. The inspiration for her monster and costume designs comes from many sources, such as Russian ballet and Memento mori statues. Mrs. Robson worked for a time under the fashion designer Mary Quant and her style continues to reflect the clarity and directness of fashion drawing. No compilation of her works exist due to copyright issues, but she owns a vast portfolio. She has worked for some of Britain's leading theatres:

• The London Ballet company.
• The Oxford Playhouse
• Prospect Productions
• Liverpool Playhouse
• Pitlochry Festival Theatre
• Century Theatre, Keswick, Cumbria
• Century Theatre, Carlisle
• Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
• Welsh Theatre company
• Atheneum Theatre, Plymouth
• The Delfont Organization

Andy Classen is a German musician, sound engineer and record producer.

Valerie Fahnestock Steele is an American fashion historian, curator, and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Steele has written more than eight books on the history of fashion, and can be regarded as one of the pioneers in the study of fashion. She was appointed director of the museum in 2003.

Sami Selçuk, is a Turkish jurist, professor of law at the Bilkent University in Ankara. He is also former First President of Court of Cassation of Turkey. He was graduated from Ankara University, Law School in 1959 then he began to work as public prosecutor. On July 7, 1999, he elected the First President of Court of Cassation of Turkey. He retired this job on June 15, 2002. He knows French and Italian languages.

Don King is an American photographer, cinematographer, and film director. He is renowned worldwide for his photographic and cinematic images of ocean surface waves and surfing.

Edward A. Oates is an American businessman. He co-founded Software Development Labs in August 1977 with Larry Ellison, and Bob Miner. Software Development Labs later became Oracle Corporation.

Donick Cary is an American writer and producer.

Dorian Haarhoff is a South African-Namibian writer and poet. Haarhoff was born in 1944 in Kimberley, Northern Cape, then part of the Cape Province. He is a naturalized citizen of Namibia. He wrote his first poem in 1955 and has been published in numerous books. He was also a professor of English at the University of Namibia. As of 2004, he worked in the creative writing department at the University of Cape Town.

Satoru Okada is the former general manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering, the division designing and developing Nintendo handheld game consoles. He is best known for creating the original Game Boy. He was also assistant producer and director of and contributor to several Nintendo games, notably Metroid, released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986.

William Douglas Parker is an American businessman who is the current Chairman and CEO of American Airlines Group, Inc., the parent company of American Airlines.